Title:
Letter from Charles H. Shinn to John Muir, 1902 Jan 13.
Creator:
Charles H. Shinn
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1902 Jan 13
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir12_0108-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 14 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Berkeley, Calif.
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
letterhead Jan. 13. 1902 Mr. John Muir. My dear sir- I want to come up and have a little talk with you some day as
soon as convenient. Please let me know when I can do so, and remember me to Mrs Muir. I am now reading for a review. Your
last book. am overcome once for all with the beauty and force of your expression. How to say clearly the opinion I have is
monumental; it needs no praise; sentence after sentence rings like the sound of many waters. calling to great forests. There
is no one else in America who is doing such work in the outdoor literature of this generation. There I have a little freed?
my mind, you old .. Sier illegible an diacritic peak Charles H Shinn 02941